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 === Stress and intonation ===
-Katäfalsen features a dynamic nonphonemic stress, which is always on the last syllable of a word as French. Because of the syllable structure CV(C), each word can be uniquely decomposed into fragments of the syllable structure CV with a final consonant, i.e. (CV)<sup>n</sup>C, and optionally one word final fragment of the syllable structure CV. The first syllables of these fragments receive secondary stresses: ''Katäfalsen'' is pronounced {{IPA|[ˈkɑtɑːfɑlˌsen]}}.
+Katäfalsen features a dynamic stress. In contrast to compounds, the stress in simple words is always initial:
+''katä'' and ''falsen'' are pronounced {{IPA|[ˈkɑtɑː]}} and {{IPA|[ˈfɑlsen]}}.
+In compounds, the stresses of words attached to the right are pulled to the previous syllable, thus the last syllable of the preceding word component.
+The last stressed syllable in a compound is the heaviest one.
+Therefore other stresses (including the initial stress on the first word component) are analysed as secondary stresses.
+If several stressed syllables are in a row, the rightmost is most dominant and the other ones are negligible.
+To come back to the example above, the compound ''Katäfalsen'' is finally pronounced {{IPA|[kɑˈtɑːfɑlsen]}} with the shifted stress of the second component being more dominant than the initial stress of the first one.